Because of the poor state of Musa Shanibov's health he was unable to write anything specifically for this project, but he send a recent but unpublished work about a major figure in the Georgian-Abkhazian war: "Sultan Sosnaliev — First Commander of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus.”

I have decided to include this work in this project in its Russian original. The English version will be published in the near future. MS

Musa ShanibovFormer president of the Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus. Founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Sociological Research of the Kabardino-Balkaria State University. KBR, RUSSIA